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The International Union of Operating Engineers, whose members work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics and construction surveyors, sued Indiana’s governor, attorney general, and labor commissioner in February, alleging that the state’s “right to work” law is unconstitutional.

Indiana’s law prohibits employers from making union membership a condition of getting or keeping a job. The union’s February lawsuit claimed the law violated its members’ Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection” under the law.

But an amended complaint filed on Wednesday added a Thirteenth Amendment claim as well. The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free.

And being forced to work without compensation, the union suggested in its revised lawsuit, is slavery.

Labor union sues Indiana, calls working alongside nonunion employees (http://news.yahoo.com/labor-union-sues-indiana-calls-working-alongside-nonunion-051005922.html)

someone needs to sue the union for extortion.

Being forced to pay for protection is illegal.

But an amended complaint filed on Wednesday added a Thirteenth Amendment claim as well. The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free.

And being forced to work without compensation, the union suggested in its revised lawsuit, is slavery.

Labor union sues Indiana, calls working alongside nonunion employees (http://news.yahoo.com/labor-union-sues-indiana-calls-working-alongside-nonunion-051005922.html)

It's been awhile, but don't the federal workers have the same thing in their union agreements. The union has to protect the worker, whether they pay or not?

It's been awhile, but don't the federal workers have the same thing in their union agreements. The union has to protect the worker, whether they pay or not?

yep, and the union has the right to represent workers at a given location or not to represent them.
If the non payers are costing the unions so much, then the unions should move to a more profitable company.

I personally would not pay union dues if I had a choice not to. And I would not strike if they went on strike, I would show up at my job each day ready to work (or play on the forums, whichever comes first)